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Source: Apple is gathering advice from carmakers and automotive suppliers about parts and production methods as it learns to build a self-driving electric car — Apple learning to make self-driving car: source — (Reuters) - Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) is learning …
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WSJ confirms Apple has several hundred employees designing a minivan-like electric vehicle, codenamed Titan, with former Ford exec Steve Zadesky leading team — WSJ: Tim Cook approved Apple electric car project a year ago, hundreds of employees working on it
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Snapchat Discover has sent some publishers millions of views per day — Snapchat Discover could be the biggest thing in news since Twitter — A few weeks ago, Snapchat updated its app. The new version had a little purple dot in the upper-right corner of the app's Stories screen.| Business Insider: |
Google's co-founders are about to sell $4.4 billion worth of shares — Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are going to sell about $4.4 billion worth of company shares, according to a new filing with the SEC (which we first spotted thanks to Footnoted).
Tweets: @footnoted
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Kara Swisher Interviews President Barack Obama on Cyber Security, Privacy and His Relationship With Silicon Valley — President Barack Obama took the hot seat with Re/code's Kara Swisher Friday as the two talked about a range of tech-focused topics, including cyber warfare …
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| Dave Maass / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
South Carolina prisons have imposed heavy penalties on over 400 prisoners for using social media, mostly Facebook — Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook — In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.
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| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Flickr beta-testing Camera Roll, a sleeker interface for browsing, editing, and organizing photos — Flickr Rolling Out Camera Roll: A New Way to Browse, Edit, and Organize Your Shots — Flickr is rolling out a new feature called Camera Roll that's designed to make it even easier for users to browse … | Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Wink's promise of a simple, affordable smart home proves false; not one product worked as advertised out of the box — Why Is My Smart Home So F**king Dumb? — A few weeks ago, a couple friends and I were about to watch a surprisingly bad scifi movie in my crowded apartment.| Casey Johnston / Motherboard: |
How Pavel Durov lost control of Russia's largest social network VKontakte to the Kremlin — Crime, Punishment, and Russia's Original Social Network — Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a contingent … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Candy Crush Saga Players Spent Over $1.3 Billion on In-App Purchases in 2014 — Candy Crush Saga may have reached peak popularity, with quarterly spending declining over the past eighteen months, but that hasn't stopped the sweet-swapping puzzle game from raking in the cash.
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Guardian, Ubergizmo, Telegraph, Touch Arcade, Tech Times and MCV: Home Stream
| Chelsey Dulaney / Wall Street Journal: |
Credit card companies boosting security; Visa expanding tokenization to devices beyond Apple; Mastercard to spend $20M on biometrics, fingerprint matching — Visa, MasterCard to Roll Out New Cybersecurity Features — Credit-Card Companies Beefing Up Security Amid Growing Concerns About Data Breaches
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Business Wire, NASDAQ.com, Planet Biometrics.com, ZDNet, CBS News, BiometricUpdate, RTTNews, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, PYMNTS.com, Payments News, PE Hub Blog and Fortune. Tweets: @aaronlucchetti
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